Device for handling cotton



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DEVICE FR HANDLING TTON.

f No. 463,708. Patented Nov. 24,1891.

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NITE STATES PATENT CEEICE.

JAMES L. IVILLIAMS AND LEVI W. BENNETT, OF PILOT POINT, TEXAS.

DEVIOE FOR HANDLING COTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 463,708, dated November24, 1891.

l Application tiled September 16, 1890. Serial No. 365,186. (No model.)

T0 all whom, t may concern: Be it known that we, JAMES L. WILLIAMS andLEVI VV. BENNETT, citizens of the United States, residing at PilotPoint, in the county of Denton and State of Texas, have invented a newand useful Device for Handling Cotton, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to devices for handling cotton; and it has forits obj ect to provide a pneumatic apparatus for conveying seed-cottonfrom a wagon, store-house, bin, or other receptacle to the gin feedersor distributers, which shall be simple in construction and efficient inoperation.

The invention consists in the improved construction, arrangement, andcombination of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described, andparticularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings hereto annexed, Figure 1 is a perspective view of acottonconveyer constructed in accordance with our invention, parts ofthe same having been broken away for the purpose of exposing theinterior construction. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in both figures.

l designates a tubular spout, the lower end of which extends into thewagon-box or other receptacle or place of deposit, from which theseed-cotton is to be conveyed to the gin-feeders. Said spout isconnected by an elbow 2 with the horizontal pipe 3, which is provided atsuitable intervals with openings 4t, connected with the gin-feeders 5.The latter in the drawings hereto annexed have been shown onlydiagrammatically,inasmuch as they form no part of the present invention.

6 designates a blast-fan, the spout 7 of which extends through asuitable opening in theupper side of the conveyer-pipe 3, near the frontend of the latter, where it isjoined The spout 7 of the fan-case extendsrearwardly into the pipe 3. Hence it will be seen that when a blast isdirected from the fan 6 through the pipe 3 suction is created in thespoutl, whereby the seed-cotton is caused to pass upward through thesaid spout and through the elbow 2 into the pipe 3, through which it isforced by the blast of air from the fan.

The sides of the pipe 3 are provided above each of the openings 4,communicating with the gin-feeders, with bearings for the transverseshafts 8, having downwardly-extending curved arms 9, that serve asscreens to intersect the seed-cotton and to direct it through theopenings 4 to the gin-feeders. The shafts 8 are provided at one end'witharms or levers l0, connected by rods ll with handles 12, by means'ofwhich they may be partly rotated in their bearings, so as to ad? justthe curved arms 9 in a raised position when desired.

The operation of the invention will be readily understood. The devicemay be used for supplying seed-cotton to any desired number of feedersor distributers. At the beginning of the operation the shaft 8 nearestthe front end of the device is adjusted with its curved arms 9 in alowered position, so as to intersect the seed cotton and cause it topass through the opening 4, which is the first in the series. Vhen thefirst gin-feeder has received a sufcient supply, the first shaft 8 isrocked in its bearings, so as to elevate the curved arms 9, as will beseen in dotted lines in Fig. l. The seed cotton will then be forced bythe air-blast over the first opening 4 and be intersected by the curvedarms of the second rock-shaft, which'are in a lowered position. In Athismanner the operation is proceeded with until the gin-feeders have allbeen supplied, after which the several rockshafts may again beoscillated to lower the. curved arms 9 for a repetition of theoperation. The air escapes through the open rear end of the pipe 3.

' Having thus described our invention, we claim-- The combination of theconveyer-pipe having openings connecting with the gin-feeders, therock-shafts journaled transversely in said pipe above said openings andhaving downwardly-extending curved arms, the blast-fan having a spoutextending into and facing rearwardly in the conveyer-pipe, and a spoutconnected with the front end of the conveyerpipe by an elbow orcoupling, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have heretoaffixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES L. VILLIAMS. LEVI IV. BENNETT. Witnesses:

W. E. MOEFITT, GEO. W. HALL.

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